Today in History for Year 1622

Months in Year 1622: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

Jan 1st - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
Jan 6th - Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
Jan 7th - Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
Feb 8th - King James I disbands the English parliament
Mar 12th - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
Mar 22nd - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
Aug 10th - County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
Sep 5th - Richelieu becomes cardinal
Sep 6th - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
Oct 18th - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 1st - Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
Jan 15th - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
Jan 20th - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
Jan 28th - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
Feb 13th - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
Feb 24th - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
Feb 27th - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter
Apr 5th - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
Apr 7th - Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
Apr 17th - Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)
May 8th - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)
May 12th - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
May 22nd - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
Jun 6th - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
Aug 16th - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
Sep 4th - Jacob Hintze, composer
Sep 30th - Johann Sebastiani, composer
Oct 31st - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
Nov 8th - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
Nov 8th - Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)
Nov 30th - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
Dec 16th - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

Jan 23rd - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38
Feb 11th - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64
Feb 19th - Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
Mar 5th - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
Apr 24th - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
May 3rd - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
May 15th - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
May 20th - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
Jun 16th - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
Jul 1st - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
Dec 13th - Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50
Dec 28th - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55